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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1934, Page 6

PERSONAL

Mr. D. Hooker, Cambridge, is visiting New Plymouth.

Mr, E. Butler, Whakatane, is visiting New 'Plymouth.

The Rev. A. L. Dixon, Presbyterian minister at Waitara, has accepted a unanimous call to Matangi, Hamilton. Professor R. Speight was elected the president of the Youth Hostel Association of New Zealand at the annual meeting of the association at Christchurch. The former president was the late Sir Arthur Dudley Dobson.

The Prime Minister, Mr. G. W. Forbes, and Mrs. Forbes, Dr. E. Marsden,_ secretary of the Department of Industrial and Scientific Research, and the Prime Minister’s secretary, Mr. C. A. Jeffrey, left New Plymouth yesterday morning by car for Palmerston North.

Mr. and Mrs. C. Davison (Rongotea), accompanied by Mr. F. Burgess, called at New Plymouth yesterday en route to Hamilton and Rotorua. They will rereturn to New Plymouth next Monday to be present at the Taranaki Jersey week sales.

The death occurred at Heretaunga yesterday as a result of a heart attack .of David Alexander Aiken, managing director of the Union Steam Ship Company, states a Wellington Press Association message. Mr. Aiken, who was in his 71st. year, had been associated with the Union Company for 51 years. He was well known in shipping, mercantile and business circles.

The death occurred in Wellington yesterday of Mr. Julius Adolph Lutz, who acted as German Consul in New Zealand during the absence of Mr. W. Penseler. Mr. Lutz, who was bom in Phorzheim, in the south of Germany, about 56 years ago, came to Wellington 30 years ago, and established himself as an indent agent. He is survived by his wife and family of three sons and three daughters. One son and one daughter are resident in Wellington. The late Mr. Lutz introduced the first German motor lorries (the Benz) into Taranaki before the war.

It was interesting to speculate what might have happened if Germany had won the war, remarked Bishop WestWatson, in an address to the League of Nations’ Union in Christchurch. Would the world have seen an age of Germanic culture, as the conquests of Alexander gave a widespread Greek culture, and the Caesaric gave the world a Roman culture? Would there have been enough force in the German Empire to take in its sweep the whole of Europe, and to go overseas to the United States? The East was another factor. Would Germany have been able to rule even there? Bad as the times had been since the war, most persons were glad that this Germanic conquest had not happened, and that the- national cultures had not been stamped out.

When speaking at the annual meeting of the Hostel Association of New Zealand at Christchurch the other night, Mr. Frank Milner, stating that he would give an impecunious Government a tip, said that the American tourist traffic offered an immediate source of real wealth. “In America I met a representative sample of the citizens of the country; many of them were keenly interested in New Zealand and in visiting the Dominion. The instability in Cuba has lost them one of their regular tourist resorts, for they are not keen to risk spending a holiday there. South America is in a state of political effervescene which does not appeal to the traveller. Europe they regard as some sort of a madhouse. They want a new outlet for their tourists, and we should provide that outlet. The fine scenery and marvellous fishing facilities of the Dominion appeal strongly to those Americans who know about them. Is it any wonder, then, that the Matson shipping line is anxious to cooperate with the Government of New Zealand in bringing these people here?”

“I am afraid that the adolescents are having a bad time at present, although, superficially, they may seem to be having a good time,” said Professor Shelley, in the course of an address to the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute. There seemed to be no aim in life; they could not see what life was about; there was no constructive idea for them to grasp. In Russia there was Communism and in Germany Hitlerism, which gave centres of interest. At present the mentality of the world was so hopeless that people would seize on anything that would give a direction to their efforts—even Hitlerism. That was why all these “isms” were having such a good run. Man must have something to worship. It was of no use holding out to young people vague and abstract moralities. If they had only a uniform with which to identify themselves with a cause that would give them a spur. It was the duty of education to supply the ideal, but the question how to find something creative to which children’s efforts should be directed was difficult to answer. When it was. necessary to tell those who had just left school that they were an unwanted generation the situation was pretty desperate. More trimmed ready-to-wears in up-to-date felts are announced by Scanlan’s Ltd. at the attractive price of 5/11. These are the latest purchase from an overstocked manufacturer, and comprise all the newest shapes and were priced to retail at 12/6. Inspection invited. Large assortment to select from.*

Men’s felt hats cleaned and re-blocked for 2/6. We also renovate suits, costumes, dresses, etc., at J. K. Hawkins, Dyers and Dry Cleaners, corner Devon and Liardet Streets, New Plymouth. 'Phone 685. We collect and deliver?